If you’re starting to see people wear Google Glass in your neighborhood and you’re nervous about the privacy implications of the new technology, Japan’s National Institute of Informatics might have just the thing for you.

The secret? The chunky glasses are lined with 11 near-infrared LEDs, which remain invisible to the human eye but appear bright and disruptive to the infrared camera.

NII associate professor Isao Echizen and professor Seiichi Gohshi of Kogakuin University created the glasses, which are still in prototype. SeveralDIYers have used the same LED-based technology to make headgear that blocks facial recognition, even posting instructions online.

Do yourself a solid and head on into the options for Instagram v4.0. There you’re find a checkbox to keep the all-new InstaVines from automatically playing. Your ears will thank you. The ears of your friends will thank you. And it should speed up the app a little as well.

Facebook reported on Friday a bug in its system “that may have allowed some of a person’s contact information (email or phone number) to be accessed by people who either had some contact information about that person or some connection to them.”

The bug, which was reported via Facebook’s crowdsourced, White Hat security researcher program, was a part of one of Facebook’s data download tools. Facebook introduced the tool, named “Download Your Information”, allows users to do just that: It provides a history of your Facebook data since you joined the network, including Timeline data, contact information, photos and videos.

The social networking giant said about six million email addresses and telephone numbers were shared, but it noted that “no other types of personal or financial information were included and only people on Facebook — not developers or advertisers — have access to the DYI tool.” It is understood that the bug has been live since last week, but was deactivated as soon as it was reported and reviewed by the security team.

Part of the problem involved Facebook’s contacts importer tool, a way for the social giant to use your communications data to connect you with people you already know on the network. After you upload your contact data from sources like Gmail, Yahoo or other services, the bug would automatically correlate it with other contact information that exists on the network.

So for example, if you have the gmail address of “Veronica Smith” in your contacts and upload that to Facebook, it’ll match with Veronica’s Yahoo email address if in fact she has entered both on Facebook.

It’s a complicated situation, but sheds light on issues of safety related to uploading one’s address book and list of contacts to services which thrive on such personal data. Other companies like Path, Instagram, Twitter and many more also use contact importing tools such as these.

Earlier this year, Facebook was also caught up in another security scandal, after a number of employees’ laptops were infected with Malware from a third-party web site. Other tech giants, such as Facebook, Twitter, Apple and Microsoft, were also caught up in the scandal.

After unveiling the video product, Systrom dropped a whole new set of 13 filters made specifically to apply to video posts, apparently with the aid of a visual artist whose work focuses primarily on video and photography.

But while the eternal, oh-so-important question raged on in the press afterward — is six seconds of short-form video (like Twitter’s Vine app) better than 15 seconds? — I had another question, equally as important: Just how does the team come up with the cutesy names for its photo filters?

At last! We’ve got the scoop on what’s behind Systrom’s new set — here’s details on 10 of them. Let’s go through the list.

The Stinson is named after a dog of an Instagram team member. If you aren’t a Californian, that name won’t mean much to you — it comes from Stinson Beach, a nice little area over in Marin County. The Moon filter is also named after a pup from someone on the team.

I could have sworn that the Vesper was named after the Bond heroine of the same name in “Casino Royale.” But no, it’s one of the Instagram team’s favorite cocktails (though if I remember correctly, James Bond does name a cocktail “the Vesper” in the flick).

Many of the new filters are named after streets, towns or areas, which I figure is an attempt to capture the feeling or ambiance of that specific locale. The Clarendon, for example, comes from a street in San Francisco, while Helena is named after the town in Napa, St. Helena. Brooklyn is pretty easy to figure out, and Ashby comes from one of the main drags in Berkeley, Calif.

Others, I’d guess, are evocative of feelings that the team had going to certain places. Ginza comes from a trip to Tokyo, named after one of the neighborhoods in the area. And Skyline is straight from Kevin Systrom — it’s one of his favorite drives down south (it’s the common name for State Route 35, the two-lane road that runs along the ridge of the Santa Cruz Mountains).

Lastly, there’s the straight-up homage: Dogpatch is an area in San Francisco, but this filter is named specifically after Dogpatch Labs, the small office spaces in tech-heavy areas where small startups are invited to come and work on their companies. Dogpatch Labs was where Systrom originally founded Burbn with Mike Krieger, the duo’s first attempt at a location-sharing startup.

The common theme here? I’d say most are named after things, places or “moments” that evoke emotions, particularly in the founders themselves. Pretty spot on for a service that purports to “capture and share the world’s moments.”

Ironing is barbaric. There I said it. Heating up a giant metal plate to slowly smooth out wrinkles is, at best, a tedious exercise, and at worst it requires way too much set up to be practical. Fortunately, there are alternatives.